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Delivering basic health services to border populations is a challenge confronted by developing nations around the world, and Ethiopia is no exception. At the farthest reaches of its territorial boundaries, Ethiopia faces the daunting task of providing health care to...

Stopping all polio transmission by the end of 2016 will require enhanced security for immunization campaigns and devising ways to vaccinate children in increasingly complicated settings, the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication initiative argues...

Over three and a half days more than 1,000 participants from 75 countries and more than 400 organizations focused on several key issues at the heart improving maternal-newborn health services globally: ensuring care is patient-focused; integrating programs to better...

Across swathes of eastern Ethiopia, there’s no water to be found. The wells are dry and the carcasses of livestock litter the fields. Entire communities are migrating from Afar region, on the border with Eritrea and Djibouti. Local NGOs in one district of Amhara...

Working together to expand pharmaceutical research agendas, improve the access of vulnerable populations to quality health care, and encourage decision-makers to tackle tough social problems, the United States and Mexico have an opportunity to eliminate the shared challenge...

Although circumstances are less than ideal, the World Health Organization’s immunization advisory panel recommends that countries move forward with a worldwide switch in oral polio vaccines (OPV) in April 2016. While a vaccine considered important to the switch...

Where Yemen will rank in terms of all-time disasters will be a matter for debate. What is far less debatable, however, is whether Yemen is on the verge of becoming a humanitarian catastrophe. As the departing ICRC Yemen delegation head, Cédric Schweizer, stated at the...

Despite concerns about costs, vaccine supply, and tight deadlines, country health leaders have reaffirmed support for highly ambitious polio vaccine plans considered necessary to achieve full global polio eradication. Delegates to the 68th World Health Assembly...

The United States and South Africa have a longstanding relationship around health. As one of the countries most deeply impacted by the AIDS epidemic, South Africa has been a major recipient of U.S. financial and technical assistance through the President’s Emergency...